New Year New (Painting) Me!

Hello once again all to my Yearly wrap-up!

So its that time of year again where I show off all the last models I panted this year and tally up my total.  

Which, I'm going to be honest, was not much....

Seems in the last half of the year I just zonked out and was not motivated to paint at all.  I did man age a few things, but overall not much.  So lets take a look at the Things I did finish up.

So to start off we have the Truthsayer from the Albion campaign book.  I've has this model primed on my desk for years.  I decided to paint it up with contrast paints and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Especially the skin.  When I finished this bad boy I was also going through my boxes of partially finished minis and decided to go whole hog on a mini project.

Behold!  My Hobgoblin Horde!  Or, more specifically, the Hobgoblin half of my Chaos Dwarf army.  Now many of these were already partially painted.  I just had to properly base, wash and highlight them.  I painted most of this stuff in 2006 and now they are finally done.  Now I just gotta refresh my actual Chaos Dwarfs.

Next up!

One Black Orc!!

Yeah I know, it's not that much be he's a test model for the colour scheme I want.  He came out pretty good and I'm happy with it.  Now I just got to do it 23 more times.

Alright next up

Behold my Marienburg Warband!  Now this is a shot of the whole team after a game of Mordheim.  with the exception of two many of these were refresh paint jobs, also one I painted early last year.  I just grabbed these from my pile of Empire minis and went to town on them.  I was inspired by Mordheim so I decided to finish one last model before the end of the year.

One Skaven Rat Ogre!  Pretty basic and I painted it pretty fast but he's done.  With that last model lets count up all I've done this year.

*Drum Roll*

100 models!....I'm actually pretty shocked.  I didn't realise I had managed that many given how I've barely painted over the last 6 months.  Also, quite a bit was repainting.  But I'm happy with everything and I hope to break this record next year! (This year I guess)

Until next time!

-Commodus

Buring Through my Pile!

Hello once again all!

So here I am just pounding the pavement and getting things done.  Looking over my pile I decided to focus on my original plan and get these half done models finished!!

 

Three Dunedain warriors for the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game!.  I dont know if anyone remembers on this blog, but I started painting these in 2016.  There they sat, half painted for almost 10 years.  Now they are done!  Off to the finished pile with you!

Speaking of Lord of the Rings...

Faramir and a Gondorian standard.  I bought both of these relatively recently and figured I could pound them out fast.  Which I did!  Only thing that prevented them from being done faster was me waiting for the wash to dry.  Of course I didn't just sit around not painting while I was waiting...

Dungeon Terrain!  I know, not much to them.  But they are done and also off the table!  Despite all this I did take a detour from the prepped models on my desk...

My last two Stone Trolls!  Yes I was sidetracked by these guys.  I saw them on a shelf and base coated them and painted them all in the same day.  Also put in the extra effort and got the Movement tray done too.

Here we see them sitting with a Troll I painted a few years ago.  Now they are all done and ready for the battle field!

So with 9 more models done I am off to continue the long slow paint war...

- Commodus

QUICK PROJECT!!!!

Hello once again all!

So another month come and gone and did I paint?  Well yes I did actually!  Not much compared to other times.  But I still got some painting done that I would like to share!

So here we have an old Dark Elf Hydra that belonged to a friend of mine.  He no longer games and sold me his minis.  So now I have a pile of Dark Elves and Wood Elves. With that said however, this model is special.  I have been fighting this Hydra for years and I think its time to give this guy a proper cleaning and paint job.

So into the paint stripper for you!

So the Super Clean not only stripped of the horrible paint job, but also dissolved the glue and Green stuff holding it together.  

Now the Hydra comes with two handlers.  One of which is missing an arm (Sadly lost to time).  But I have another set of handlers from my other Hydra.  So I have all thats needed to caste a replacement arm!

 Voila!  New arm!

So here we have the model newly built and based!  Now to get it painted....

It is done!  One Spellthirster War Hydra for my Dark Elf Army!  I love how it came out.  It matches how I imagined it would look like when done.  The only downside to this project was that I discovered that my old Liche Purple has completely dried out.  RIP paint.

So with this done I can add it to the pile of minis for this year. So far so good!

-Commodus

April Shock and Awe Continues!!!

Hello once again all!

So im back again, much sooner than you thought!  Mostly because I want to show off another thing I did on a whim.  I had my craft paint out already, so I decided to bang out yet another terrain project!

So without further ado...

One bakery for my Village Terrain project!  I had pulled this out in November with the plan on painting it...never got around to it.  But since I was working on terrain with my last post, and all my paint was already out, I decided to say "to hell with it!" and buckled down to paint this up.

Overall im very happy with how it came out.  The whole thing was technically 8 pieces before being put together, so I'll count this as 8 separate models.  Is that fair?

No.

- Commodus

Another Update? SHOCKING!!!!

Hello all!

Well I'm back again with more to share.  I know I only tend to monthly updates but lets break the trend!  Lets make NEW trends!  Lets show off what I managed to paint...

 

The Mines of Moria Terrain set!

Now, I had already painted and showed off a few of these minis already.  Specifically the door and the trapdoor as well as one of the dead scatter dwarfs.  Now I painted the pillars, well, tomb and more scatter dwarfs!  

This set is one I bought used online so its actually missing one of the scatter pieces but that's no biggy.  If I want to do the LOTR scenario, I don't really need it.  In fact, I am so close to having everything I need to do the Mines of Moria scenario...we'll just have to wait and see!

Next up!

40k Terrain!  Okay, technically 3rd party 3d printed terrain for generic space game.  But I intend to use these for a Kill Team board in the future.  Just need to get more buildings to fill a board.

And with that done its time to work on more stuff...

Stay Tuned!

- Commodus

SMARCH!!!!

Hello all!

So once again a but late on my Blog update.  I honestly had things ready to go, but life got in the way and now this is a week late.  Oh well!

I did manage to get some projects off my workbench so I figured I'd just share what I got done!

One detachment of Handgunners!  I had them half painted sitting their staring at me.  As I had just finished my Inner Circle Knights I figure I'd bang these guys out pretty quick.  Came out pretty well!  So 5 done, next up....

4 Oathmark Dwarf Warriors!  I bought a loose sprue last year so I can add more bodies to my Frostgrave warband.  I only managed to get one done last year, now I finished off the last of the sprue.  As I promised myself not to buy more sprues until I finished the ones I had...well...now I can!

Next up...

My last Two River Trolls!  I had decided to start cutting into my Orc and Goblin army pile I had based and unpainted.  These two Trolls now add to my other two I had painted back in 2020.  I haven't made a movement tray for them yet, but once I get more balsa wood I will show off the whole unit.

Speaking of Goblins...

Two Netters and 3 Fanatics!  Once again, based and just sitting their staring at me, unpainted.  Now they are done and added to my growing WAAAAGH.

In total I managed 16 Minis last month.  Much better that February...but still not enough!

Stay tuned!

-Commodus

February not as Great as I hoped...

 Hello once again!

 So I had planned to get SO MUCH DONE in the month of February!!!!

...That did not happen.  Turns out what I decided to paint was much harder than I thought.  So with that said...

Five Inner Circle Arc Knights of Averland!  Bodyguard of House Leitdorf.

Now this unit has been base coated and sitting in a box since 2008.  I had taken them to a tournament, the last tournament for Warhammer Fantasy I had gone too, back then.  I came in 3rd with the plans of finishing this unit.

Of course I instead but them in a box and forgot about them.  However now they are done!  Now just to get a movement tray for them.  Also figure out how to get them glued to the horses.  So far I'm using sticky tack as their legs keep getting into the way.  Oh well, we shall see.

So I guess for February I only managed 5 models.  Hopefully more next month! 

-Commodus